[Mimedefang] Sophie/MD Error in Messages log

[Adam Beatham]

At 01:57 PM 6/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Danke Schoen!  That's what it was, all is good!

thanks again

-adam

>On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, David F. Skoll wrote:
>
> > That shouldn't happen, because presumably mimedefang.pl will block on
> > the Sophie socket until it gets an answer back.  I bet it's a permission
> > problem and Sophie is returning a misleading error message
> > ("not found" instead of "permission denied")
>
>I can confirm that this is what it is...  I did it on purpose while I was
>writing up the sophie support.
>
>BTW, I highly suggest that everyone do something like this:
>
>($code, $cat, $act) = message_contains_virus_sophie() if 
>$Features{"Virus:SOPHIE"};
>if ($cat eq "virus") {
>   # quarantine it or whatever...
>}
>else {
>   syslog("err", "Virus scanner error: $code $cat $act") if $cat ne "ok";
>}
>
>If you don't check $code or $cat, if sendmail and sophie can't talk to
>each other via the socket, that would be the same as a general "OK"
>status.
>
>ie.
>
>if (message_contains_virus_sophie()) {
>   # here the message is infected
>}
>else {
>   # here, either the message is clean, or sendmail can't talk
>   # to sophie (or... ?)
>}
>
>--
>Jason Englander
>jason at englanders.cc
>
>
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-adam, the guy behind the guy behind the guy